Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-07-24
DAVIS, W. VA.
Tho Beauties of the Town Opened Up by
the West Virginia Central.

est NTHlnld Otnt'ui IaliiUfu VII bHS
Black Water river. 1t was laid out four
years ago by n Mr.. Landstreet. The first
house was built by Robert Eastman.
One of the things by which Davis will he
longest remembered is its tannery. Fayer-
weather K Ladew last year erected just at
the edge of the town q tanneTy which al
ready spreads over two acres of ground.
This firm are the owners of what IS now
the largest tannery in the world, d
the one they lave erected here Is now
third, and when 1t has been finished Will be
the second largest tannery in the country.
1t is under the efficient superintendent
ship of w. X. Wilson, formerly OF Hamp-
shire county, W. Va.
o. l.. Lockwood, Esq, is general man
ager of the tannery here, and also superin-
tendent of another tannery situated at
Eyert, Pa.
During the last few months 100 feet OF
dry house has heen erected, 200 more watts
put in and six securing machines received.
4 large yard of $50 feet in length and 125
broad has been added.
The company employs at the present
time $50 men, but this number will be
increased as soon as new buildings can be
erected.
One man at the tannery stated that
there was enough hemlOck n oak bark
in this country to last them for the next
fifty years, which is saying q good deal for
the timber of West Virginia, when we see
as high as twenty car loads OF bark come
in a day on the West Virginia Central,
and there is never a day passes but that
they bring in five or six car loads to Davis.
The fires are never ~eXtinguished, but
kept going night and day, and the liquor
runners are also kept busy all the time.
They get their hides almost exclusively
from the West, and after they have been
tanned they 20 to the house OF the firm in
New York, where they are disposed of.
Everything about the hides is made in
some way to pay, and it was said by one
of the managers that the profit derived
from the oil and hair payed all the ex
penses connected with the tannery, so it
can be easily seen what an immense profit
there must he in the business. MIR.
Fayerweather and Ladew are sOns-in-law
OF the celebrated tanner, J. w. Hoyt, who
died some time since at his home in New
York. He, Mr.. Hoyt, started the first
tannery in the United States.
A building was erected here early in the
spring for the purpose OF establishing q
Public Library. As soon as the building
was ready for occupation Mrs 5. i. Elkins
came forward with q magnificent offer of
over $500, which was accepted and books
we're purchased, and Davii now has a. nice
a little library as any place of three times
its size.
They have q Public School here which
keeps open eight months during the year.
About ninety pupils We're on the rolls last
wear, and a decided increase is expected at
the opening of the next school year. Two
teachers were employed, bat if there is
much of an increase more teachers will be
needed in September.
The Hon. II. G.. Davis is clearing q
beautiful piece of ground Just 4 little west
of town, where he expects To erect 4 hand
some summer house, aud will make Il small
park TO the left OF the house.
S. B. Elkins will build at the east end
of town.
There are now two churches in the town,
the Methodist Episcopal aud a Presbyter-
ian church. The former Is presided over
By the Rev. S. 7. Archer, who is the young
est member of the West Virginia Confer
ence, and a man who will some day make
his mark i'll the religious world. The
church was dedicated the second Sunday
in June by the Rev. G. W. Smith, DID,
Of Pittshurg. The Rev. NJ. W. Wood
worth Is Tue pastor q! the ~lreSnyter'an
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merous SPRINGS in the vicinity. is ELEGANT
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some of the finest fishing and HUNTING that
can he found in the United States, is 0win,
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